
This archive contains files to replicate the paper: Williamson, M. "Covid 19 and Preferences for Progressive Taxation."

Before running any code, it will help to open the RStudio project file ("jepop_williamson.Rproj"). 

The following files contain the data for the main analyses: 
- ./data/main_data/master_zip_data_il.csv : Data for the Illinois analyses
- ./data/main_data/master_anes_data.csv : Data for the ANES 2016-2020 panel analyses

The supplementary materials draw on the following additional datasets: 
- ./data/sm_data/anes_timeseries_2020_csv_20220210.csv : 2020 ANES
- ./data/sm_data/bea_state_gdp.csv : Bureau of Economic Analysis quarterly state GDP estimates, as of March 28, 2025
- ./data/sm_data/master_county_data.csv : Data for county-level Illinois analyses
- ./data/sm_data/master_zip_data_az.csv : Data for Arizona analyses
- ./data/sm_data/monthly_emp_chg_by_cty_20_21.csv : County-level quarterly employment change based on the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages (QCEW)
- ./data/sm_data/spatial_data/ : Repository for Illinois zip code shapefile 
- ./data/sm_data/Weekly_United_States_COVID-19_Cases_and_Deaths_by_State_-_ARCHIVED_20250409.csv : Weekly Covid-19 cases and deaths by state based on CDC data 

The following script runs the analyses in the main text and supplementary materials. 
- analysis.R